Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1723] New: Enhamcement of text2cap for parsing flexibility

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 02:36:40 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1723

           Summary: Enhamcement of text2cap for parsing flexibility
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: SVN
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Medium
         Component: Extras
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: jacyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark
-v", or "tshark -v".
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1. Support non-delimiter date format. A lot of packet trace or analysis, syslog
tools use this format (e.g. 20070413 = April 13th, 2007). Original version will
treat it as a address offset and make parsing confused. So I add some checking
to identify the date and this format can be accepted.

2. Make text message be parsed more precisely. The current version will be
confused and write an error packet if a comment line has strings matching to 
offset patterns. The enhanced state machine will add some check to discard
these strings of this case.

3. Add ASCII print identification. Many tools used to append ASCII print of the
packet after Hex print. This enhancement will identify the 2-digits string is a
true packet byte or not. Take line “000000 61 62 20 63 64 20 ab cd    ab
cd ..”for example, the end part “ab cd ..” is the ASCII print of hex
print "61 62 20 63 64 20 ab ab". In the previous version of text2pcap the ASCII
part “ab cd ” will be parsed as byte token and the packet will have extra 2
btyes of garbage content. This enhancement will pick it out and roll back if
extra bytes are parsed.


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